EFL Learners' and Teachers' Attitudes Towards Online Teaching of Writing

Abstract

The present study aims at investigating EFL students and teachers’ attitudes towards online teaching of writing. It also attempts to find out whether the online teaching mode could be used effectively to teach writing skills. To conduct this research two online questionnaires were used. The first was administered to seventy third year students at the University of Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahya, and the second to five teachers of writing. The results of the study revealed that both students and teachers have negative attitudes towards online teaching of writing. Furthermore, the findings revealed that both students and teachers are not quite satisfied with the experience of teaching writing in an online setting due to certain obstacles that confronted them during the process. It has been also shown that online teaching was the only solution to keep the writing instruction going during the pandemic, and to prevent any kind of disturbance throughout the academic year. Therefore, it is recommended to tackle the weaknesses related to an online writing instruction for an appropriate implementation of the approach in order to maximize the outcomes